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As the world tries to find more eco-friendly alternatives to pesticides, a team of Russian and Indian scientists has an interesting idea.
A giant raft of light rocks is heading towards Australia -- and that's a good thing.
The magma has remained in place since dawn of our planet.
This is amazing -- and a bit scary.
It's amazing what you can do with one fossil.
After all, the Earth was once a snowball too.
The findings show that plate tectonics started 3.3 billion years ago, coinciding with the period when life started on Earth.
The huge bone belonged to one of the largest creatures to ever walk on land.
These are among the best images of this kind.
Ever wanted to feel a marsquake?
Every once in a while, a scientific matter will spill into the courtroom — this is the case with the “dueling dinosaurs” fossil.
The permafrost is like a graveyard. Some of that graveyard is waking up.
Tamu Massif is forcing geologists to re-think a classic volcano formation theory.
The aquifer stretches at least from the shore of Massachusetts to New Jersey.
We're hoarding all the supply.
Volcanic craters act as giant horns that emit intense low-frequency sounds.
A tsunami-devastated region has a long historical precedent.
Lightning may not strike two times in the same place -- but tsunami sure does.
It was 'imported' from space via a meteorite impact.
It seems there was a connection between tides and earthquakes after all.
It's one of the oldest meteorite impacts ever discovered.
Curiosity is finding water beneath the ground -- and in the sky.
Sometimes, you just have to look at individual trees to understand the forest.
We are living in changing times.
This is one of the most exciting volcanic areas in the world.
We didn't know volcanoes can form in this way.
Bedbugs have been alive far longer than humans have.
Talk about a stunning find!
This dinosaur was more like a flying squirrel than a bird.
It's a big call, but researchers are confident.
Our planet is one big salad.
A smaller relative to the king of the dinosaurs.
"We hope that it will be very useful material for further study of the evolution of hadrosauroids, iguanodintians and ornithopods as well," the authors write.
The moon has a hydrological cycle, but it looks nothing like the one on Earth.
This creature had a whale of a time.
It was ten times larger than the Amazon delta.
This study offers a vital answer, but also poses a puzzling question.
It's a hint that Mars had a wet past.
This helps to explain why there are so many fertile fishing grounds in the area.
It's one of the most spectacular findings in recent history.
Pixar left this part out of Ice Age.
Waterfall formation could be far more complex than scientists previously thought.
As if Stonehenge wasn't impressive enough, its rocks were quarried from a very, very long distance away.
The perfect Valentine's dinosaur -- a massive Titanosaur!
There are actually tens of thousands of Stonehenge-like structures throughout Europe.
Some scientists say it was more a bird than a dinosaur.
Our planet really is alive.
Yay for creative science!
These are not your average mermaids, however.
Archaeopteryx remains a key link in dinosaur-bird evolution, but maybe it wasn't all that unique.
